How to Connect an External Tv Tuner Card to Your Desktop

In this article, we will learn how to connect an external Television tuner card to your desktop, such that when you power on the tuner card, you can watch TV and when you power it off, you are back to your normal desktop (running any operating system)

Steps

1. 1
   Open up the box packing the TV tuner card, its remote and a few cables.
2. 2
   Plug out the speaker jack from your sound-card (which is usually located at the back of the CPU cabinet).
3. 3
   Insert the cable(which has a similar jack like your speaker's jack that was plugged into the sound card) that came along with the packaging in the place of the speaker jack into your sound card.
4. 4
   The other end of this cable should be plugged into the "Sound-out" socket of the TV tuner card.
5. 5
   The speaker jack should be plugged into the "Sound-In" socket of the TV tuner card.
6. 6
   Plug out the monitor display cable from the back of the CPU cabinet and plug it into the TV tuner card. The socket on the card looks similar to the one on the CPU cabinet.
7. 7
   Now, take the other cable that had come bundled with the tuner card and plug one of its end into the monitor socket on the CPU cabinet.(The plug looks similar to the plug on your monitor cable).
8. 8
   Plug the other end of this cable into the "VGA-Out" socket of the tuner card.
9. 9
   Take the power adapter that came bundled with the card and plug it into a power source.
10. 10
    The output cable of the power adapter needs to be plugged into the "Power-In" socket of the tuner card.
11. 11
    Insert the terrestrial antenna jack into the antenna socket of the card.
12. 12
    Switch on the entire setup. (In some cases, you could hear a beeping sound from the speakers).
13. 13
    Use the remote control bundled with the card and make sure it has proper batteries in it.
14. 14
    Press the power button and the desktop monitor should show some display resembling a disturbed TV transmission.
15. 15
    Treat the setup like a regular TV and tune the channels.
16. 16
    Turn the TV off, and you can continue working on your desktop normally.

Disable Error Reporting in XP, Vista, and Windows 7

Disable Error Reporting in XP, Vista, and Windows 7

When you’re trying to fix a computer or are setting it up for certain functionality for a business, it can be quite annoying always getting error messages when you know what your doing. Today we take a look at disabling those messages in XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

Note: Error Reporting can be valuable if Windows isn’t working correctly and shouldn’t be disabled unless you’re a system admin or power user. This is not recommended for the average home user. 

Error Reporting is enabled by default on XP, Vista, and Windows 7. If an error occurs, a detailed message regarding the error pops up and you’re prompted to send the information to Microsoft. This is so they can gather error info from millions of PC’s and helps them create patches and Service Packs. In some cases it will check the error and provide solutions to fix it. When you’re setting up a machine for specific functionality, the messages get very annoying. There are a number of reasons why an experienced user or tech would want to turn them off, so lets begin.

Disable Error Reporting in Windows 7

Open up the start menu and type in problem reporting settings into the search box, or head to Action Center –> Change Action Center Settings –> Problem Reporting Settings. If you used the search, use the “Choose how to report problems” item in the list:

Then you can easily choose the option from the list:

Again, you probably should leave it enabled, but this will let you disable it.

Disable Error Reporting in Windows 7 with Group Policy

Note: This method used Local Group Policy Editor which isn’t available in Home versions of Windows 7.

Click on Start and enter gpedit.msc into the search box and hit Enter.

Local Group Policy Editor opens and you want to navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Error Reporting and under Setting double click on Disable Windows Error Reporting.

 

Change it from Not Configured to Enabled, then click Apply and Ok and close out of Local Group Policy Editor.

Disable Error Reporting in Vista

To disable Error Reporting in Vista click on Start and open Control Panel.

Make sure you’re in Classic View and double click on Problem Reports and Solutions.

Under Tasks click on the Change Settings link.

 

It’s worth noting here that if you choose Ask me to check if a problem occurs, error reporting is enabled but you get to choose whether or not to send the diagnostics to Microsoft. If you select Check for solutions automatically (recommended) then all data will be sent to Microsoft automatically. Since we want to disable it all together, click on theAdvanced Settings link.

In the next screen under For my programs, problem reporting is…select Off then click Ok to close out of the Problem Reports and Solutions window.

 

Next you’ll see that everything under Choose how to check for solutions to computer problems is grayed out. Click Ok to close out of this screen.

Click Close on the message telling you that Error Reporting is turned off.

Disable Error Reporting in XP

To disable error reporting in XP right click on My computer and select Properties. In theSystem Properties window click the Advanced tab then the Error Reporting button.

The Error Reporting window comes up where you want to select Disable error reporting. Uncheck the box But notify me when critical error occur if you don’t want to see any errors at all then click Ok and Ok to close out of the System Properties window.

Conclusion

When you’re setting up a computer for a set of users in a company, chances are the settings will pop up error messages that you already know about, and this takes up time to click out of them. With error reporting turned off, experienced users can go about their business without being annoyed constantly. A couple of other suggestions to eliminate other annoyances is to disable Program Compatibility Assistant and disabling the delete confirmation dialog as well. So far I haven’t noticed as many errors in Windows 7 as Vista, and they seemed to be a regular occurrence on XP. Disabling Error Reporting allows the experienced user to save time by not having to constantly clicking out of them.